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Comment on Auto-Building Dwelling thinking by avoidingthevoid

avoidingthevoid — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:13:55 +0000

It is fascinating, as a symptom, this technological drive to total technological perfection. I think technology does present us with a kind of saving power, but we haven’t worked out what it is we want to save and so risk everything to pursue technology for its own sake, which dangerously seems to mime the drive for money for its own sake.

Comment on [Notes] Guy Debord: Society of the Spectacle by avoidingthevoid

avoidingthevoid — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:04:36 +0000

Apply ‘please’, ‘thank you’ and ‘sorry’ to all of your actions and towards all beings and you’ll see through the spectacle. This understanding has changed my life quite considerably recently. As one person, you have the ability to change and to help those things that are suffering right in front of you. If we stop thinking about grand notions of change and start to look at small changes, the big changes will come. It’s quit simple, but it does and has worked for me.

Comment on [Notes] Guy Debord: Society of the Spectacle by hirn

hirn — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:13:05 +0000

what the f*ck am i supposed to do? as one person- can someone tell me that!!

Comment on Auto-Building Dwelling thinking by Bob the Chef

Bob the Chef — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:02:53 +0000

I suspect that transhumanism would take heat from numerous schools of thought, with it Lacanian which in particular would no doubt characterize transhumanism as yet another ideological coping mechanism designed to paper over the void of despair. Even if engaged in, it would sooner or later crack and crumble under the pressure of a a fictive teleology, as all others have. The “solution” may well entail the destruction of humanity, not it’s alleged transcendence, never mind that very few seem to be able to fully realize their humanity in the first place. The petty fable that technology can function as a savior is not new, and it is surprising that there are still those who cling to it and haven’t since moved on to newer and shinier fictions.

Comment on A theologian and a materialist walked into a barred nature… by avoidingthevoid

avoidingthevoid — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:05:03 +0000

Hi Timothy,
I see from your blog you’re an OOO man, too. My interest in OOO has waned recently, mainly because don’t read Graham’s blog anymore and I’m deliberately keeping away from Levi’s blog… as I don’t like being drip fed… although the blog format works for Levi’s Lacanian thinking (to generate the desire for desire), I like to read his blog in big chunks rather than bit by bit, so I sojourn there every now and again.

Anyway, yes, I would very much like to read your book. Thank you for the very kind and generous offer. You can email me the ebook if you like: mike.avoidingthevoid@googlemail.com
or if you want to send me a genuine big bulky tree shredded book, then I can email you my address.

I suggest a read of this, if you haven’t already:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23157020/Philosophy-and-Ecosystem-Towards-a-Transcendental-Ecology

I’d be interested to hear you thoughts. I hope to write up a little post about it soonsih… but having just had my head blown off from the Marxism 2010 festival, I’m a little preoccupied.

Comment on A theologian and a materialist walked into a barred nature… by Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:40:32 +0000

Hi. I wrote a book that you might find interesting because Slavoj wrote about it somewhat, called Ecology without Nature–if you like I could send it to you. Or The Ecological Thought which is a little more ontological.

Comment on Dictionary of concepts for Graham Harman’s object-oriented philosophy [draft: work in progress] by Great Resource: Dictionary of Harman’s OOO Concepts « Networkologies

Great Resource: Dictionary of Harman’s OOO Concepts « Networkologies — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:30:22 +0000

[...] Dictionary of Harman’s OOO Concepts Mike over at AvoidingTheVoid has a great post up of Dictionary of Concepts for Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Philosophy. Its all quotes from a wide variety of OOO texts, a very cool resource. Still a work in progress, a [...]

Comment on To begin from the beginning… by avoidingthevoid

avoidingthevoid — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:40:06 +0000

Thanks… that’s good of you. How do you like the new title image? My thinking is that subtlety is overrated. Opening a web page and seeing a giant VOID before my eyes should be a great way to start the day from now on.

Comment on To begin from the beginning… by Christian

Christian — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:08:35 +0000

Good luck sir, I’ll be following along.

Comment on “The Great Pan is dead”: A rebuke of the myth of natural balance. Part 1 by rockwell

rockwell — Mon, 17 May 2010 02:38:35 +0000

Good post. Hope to see much more good posts in the future.